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The author examines working with groups on-line from a Gestalt therapy perspective, an integrated therapeutic approach. The growing occurrence of the therapeutic group online setting brings the need to reconsider clinical tools to use bodily processes in the therapeutic relationship. This article provides a detailed and nuanced consideration of embodied process on-line and offers a practical and useful framework for clinicians, from a phenomenological, aesthetic and field oriented epistemological ground. In the on-line therapeutic group consideration needs to be given to the way embodied vitality can be engendered as supports for contact between members. Vitality is supported through a renewing of attention to the lived body as a support for spontaneous interactions, yet care is required in the on-line domain as there is a tendency towards disinhibition. The author explores how the relational grail of on-line therapy is an inter-embodied experience. This can be supported by the therapist cultivating an embodied presence, accompanied by an intentional disposition to wander with wonder as a way of surrendering to the unknowing of the virtual between. Such an orientation includes the therapist adopting an embodied hermeneutic phenomenological approach in group work that supports the co-creating of meaning between members in this trans-subjective situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gestalt group therapy, along with many forms of group therapy, fosters possibilities for past developmental hurts to reemerge in the present with the hoped-for resolution to occur in relationship. Working with developmental yearnings requires an embodied sensitivity to understand the intentionality of contact experienced in the bidirectionality of movements that occur at the contact-boundary. Often, words are employed prematurely as part of the contacting process as we seek to "language" experience. A somaesthetic approach nurtures the potential of the group incarnate where patterns of relating body forth between members, in the hope that spontaneity and vitality can be renewed and healing experienced. This is a form of group therapy, by the group, for the group, including the psychotherapist. A capacity of exquisite attention moment to moment and movement to movement within the group field supports such contacting processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A collaborative inquiry approach to researching embodied Gestalt group supervision highlights the way a phenomenological and relational field perspective supports the cocreating of practice-based knowledge. A brief overview of this dynamic and reflexive approach is offered. Three key themes emerging from this research are discussed and critiqued to support supervisees and supervisors interested in embodied forms of group supervision. Considerations are offered for supervisors wishing to develop an embodied approach to their group work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a Gestalt therapist’s perspective on the ways we can understand individuals’ responses to the current ecological crisis and the challenge of sustainability. Some of the underlying assumptions that appear to shape our creative adjustments are insufficient in and of themselves. The author develops aspects of Gestalt therapy theory’s radical epistemology, elicited by field theory and the wisdom of the body, as an alternative to the prevailing rationalised and reasoned view that has informed current responses. Hope is maintained that our Gestalt therapy practice may foster novel responses that sustain and nourish our planet and all who inhabit her by: (1) extending the field to include a wider ecology of relational interactions; (2) moving from configuring our ecological problem as a crisis to one of supporting creativity; (3) attending to our sensorial, animating intersubjective bodies rooted in a relational field; (4) fostering a practice of radical inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the description of the action research project from two different senior leadership group, the higher education institute Learning for Life University and Homes for Everyone. It mentions that the focus of the action research at Homes for Everyone was to develop the necessary supports for a conversation between one director who is resisting the challenges posed to his division. It includes suggestions which can be considered by organization development (OD) consultants.

The article discusses aspects of group development process and its efficient facilitation using a relational model which depends on the group, maturity, and tasks. It says that the model has three phases such as connection and contacting, challenging and confrontation, and creation and commitment. It states that through action learning sessions, facilitators can enhance learning through genuine inquiries to phenomenological experiences of people, invitation of reflections, and reflexivity.